While looking up stuff on GameDev.Net I came across this programm called. Teddy. It's basically a VERY simple 3d modeling program where you draw shades and it "inflates" them. Then you can paint the model. There are only a few commands you can perform, but that is where it's cool. It's so simple you can do alot of stuff.
They also made a painting program called Chameleon, which allows you to rotate your model and paint it very easily. It's like MS Paint in 3D. Atleast for me it was very intuitive.
My first real creation is this Mean Cat Pillow:
Pretty crappy. But whatever. It was neat and it took like 15mins to make.
You can download Teddy & Chameleon <a href="http://www-ui.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~takeo ... m">here</a>.
There is a instruction video which I suggest you all watch. It's rather large since it was encoded with CinePack >_>. But it shows you pretty much all the commands you can perform and how to perform them.
Once you've made your model, save it, then launch Chameleon and load it into there. The icons are straightforward. If you've used MS Paint, you should have no problem using this.
Things to note:
Both Teddy & Chameleon use the right mouse button to allow you to rotate the model.
In Chameleon you can hold down Alt and move the mouse up and down to make the camera zoom in and zoom out on the model. Holding down Crtl while moving the mouse will allow you to make the camera pan around. This is useful for getting up close and filling in portions or getting exact detail.
Save a snapshot and then post it here. If you need someone to host it contact me. :O
This program was actually designed with the idea in mind for designing a easy to use, user interface. Little japanese school children can use this program!!! You should be able to as well. Though those japanese kids have brains that are 2x the size of ours. But still!
Have fun.
~klinky
j/k queenky the queer chick!